2 Sept 1811

Jug. Util

B.II.

Ch. 6 7 8 Mischief. 5. Antipathy for pleasure

§.1. Generalia

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Ch. 6 8. Mischief 5. Producing antipathy towards others, for in the /partaking/ score of innoxuous pleasure act renamed antipathy from asceticism.

In the present life the happiness and unhappiness /felicity and infelicity/ of human beings depends in a large proportion on their /the [...?]/ affections and disposition and conduct /as towards /relation to/ one another/ (of such portion of the entire species as come within the sphere of one anothers influence, on the external /exterior/ conduct, and hence in the inward affection in which that conduct has its use: in good offices /or/ and ill offices, and thence in good will and ill will.

To promote in the breast of each man good will to all men is among the objects professed to be aimed at by them or some of them in whose discourses the Christian religion took its rise. But if such were the end aimed at, far from being conducive to that end have been some of the doctrines /affections/ that were soon embraced by and still continue to be prevalent among their followers.

Exactly opposite to the affection /termed/ of good will is the affection /termed/ of ill-will or antipathy. With the exception therefore of the case in which ill-will /or rather ill-office/ towards one person or persons is necessary to the preservation of another, whatsoever opinion tends to exist and produce antipathy, tends in the same proportion to produce mischief in that shape.

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Mischief.5. Producing antipathy from asceticism. Felicity or infelicity depends greatly on good and ill offices, thence on good and ill will.

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To promote good will is among the professions of the author of Christianity: to promote ill will is the tendency of many of their doctrines. Promotion of ill will is every thing that tends to excite antipathy.